The Nation of Islam and its leaders have received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the U.S. government since 2008 to teach religious study programs for federal prison inmates, ...

The alliance between the Nation of Islam, a black organization, and Scientology, an almost entirely white one, was hatched in the mid-Aughts, when the late Isaac Hayes, one of the only famous ...

A new era. When Elijah Muhammad died in 1975, his son, Warith Deen Mohammed, transformed the NOI into the “World Community of al-Islam in the West.”He downplayed previous teachings about Black ...

Minister Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, gets a standing ovation from his followers as he makes a point while speaking at a press conference at Mosque Maryam on March 31, 2011, in ...

Malcolm X, the civil rights leader who was assassinated in 1965, was back in the headlines this week after the Manhattan District Attorney’s (DA) Office said it is taking another look at the ...

Muhammad and others with the Nation of Islam in Michigan are busy this month preparing for the group's annual gathering known as Saviours' Day, a holiday that celebrates the birthday of Master ...

The civil rights leader Malcolm X was famously part of the Nation of Islam until his break from the group in 1964. What is the history behind this small but influential religious movement?

The Nation of Islam is reaching out to metro Detroit's sizable Arab American communities, as it has before, said Troy Muhammad. The last time Farrakhan delivered a speech at an Arab American ...

The Nation of Islam set up its own schools, stores, and restaurants; men learned history and religion, while women were taught nutrition and child rearing.

The Nation of Islam is one of the fastest growing Islamic groups in the UK, particularly among disenfranchised black youth. Louis Farrakhan’s group doesn’t adhere to Qu’uranic authority in the way ...